Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions - Entries

The IPE Awards cannot accept entries from pensions-owned investment vehicles or funds. In addition, the IPE Awards reserves the right to restrict entries from pension-owned asset managers to themed awards only if their entry concerns a specific area of their operations, for example commodities investing, that is not drafted in support of a specific pension fund’s own investment strategy and objectives.

Confidentiality of entries

At the request of the pension funds entering the Awards, IPE will keep the identity of pension funds confidential, only disclosing the names of winners or runners-up.

However, the entry submitted from the winning pension fund will be used for the full article that appears in the IPE Awards Supplement, which is distributed on the evening of the Awards and with the subsequent edition of IPE.

Terms & Conditions - Judging

All the entries for a particular country, Themed, Bronze or the Gold Best Long-Term Investment Strategy are made available online to each judge for that Award. They review and score each entry independently. Their scores are forwarded to IPE to determine the winner and highly commended. If there are pension funds with equal top scores, IPE’s practice is to present the award to both funds. If no fund’s entry reaches a sufficient standard in the view of the judges, no award is presented.

There are two IPE European Awards that are awarded purely through a process of nomination by IPE’s readers and the resulting short-list voted on by IPE’s judges. These are Outstanding Industry Contribution and Pension Fund Personality of the Year.

Up to 100 judges can be involved in the IPE Awards. We have a local panel of judges for each Country Award, for Central & Eastern European and for Smaller Countries.

Each Themed, Bronze and the Gold Best Long-Term Investment Strategy Award has its own panel of judges, who are experts in that category and usually based throughout Europe. A separate panel of judges considers entries for the Smaller European Pension Fund Award, as this needs to comprise judges based in different countries to give an all-round assessment.

A special panel of judges is assembled for the European Silver and Gold Awards. This is the largest panel and includes a number of judges who have been judging this Award since inception. They each review and mark the entries again, without taking into account how the entry was scored at the Country or Themed/Bronze Award stage.

The judges’ view is final and no correspondence or contact between judges and entrants is entertained.

It is inevitable in a business such as ours that conflicts of interest can occur at the judging stage. We rely on our judges to make sure that such factors do not influence their views, but if a serious conflict were to emerge the judge involved would discuss the matter with IPE and excuse themselves from judging that particular entry.

You may submit the same entry and/or additional entries for the Country/Regional Awards and/or the Themed Awards. If you do submit the same entry for your country/region and different themes, it will be judged independently by the relevant judging panels:

  • at national/regional level against all other entries from pension funds in your region
  • at pan-European level against all other entries for the themes you have chosen